"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

Gerry Goffin, Husband and other half of songwriting team with Carole King, 75. If you don't know who Goffin and King are, keep that shit to yourself and Google it. Not in the mood for people who are ignorant of good music.

Got chatting to a youth on Bookface the other day, he told me that folk music was rubbish. I asked why. He told me "You can't drop the bass with folk music".

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

Roy Hunter wrote:Got chatting to a youth on Bookface the other day, he told me that folk music was rubbish. I asked why. He told me "You can't drop the bass with folk music".

Yet another harbinger of the apocalypse.

"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-- Philip K DickWhat happens when all the renewable energy runs out?-- Victoria AylingEnglish isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."

Roy Hunter wrote:Got chatting to a youth on Bookface the other day, he told me that folk music was rubbish. I asked why. He told me "You can't drop the bass with folk music".

The recent obsession in EDM with "dropping the bass" reminds me of a line from Ishkur's guide to electronic music (which, if you haven't seen it, is a great guide to all the myriad subgenres of EDM):

Let it be said that electronic music NEVER learns how to 'leave the audience wanting more'. Instead, like a spoiled, immature little child, it shamelessly and greedily exploits any whiff of success it sees, to cartoonish extremes.

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

British actress Patsy Byrne, best known for playing Nursie in Blackadder II, has died aged 80. This follows the death of Rik Mayall a little over a week ago, who played Lord Flasheart in Blackadder II.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

In this Bieber world there are so few role models today to show boys how to be 'good' men, or role models worth following.

In his personal life he was a family man,, he wasn't out drinking and womanizing like so many actors of the day were. He married and stayed with his wife for almost 60 years. That alone makes him a great man. He may not have won the Hollywood awards but his fellow actors respected him and so did his fans. That is what mattered to this man.

I would be interested in hearing how she is viewed outside of the US. As a poet I thought she sucked, but was given the Nations highest honer by Clinton. I posted some snarky comments under that article and now feel a bit abashed, especially remembering that Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize.

As I see it Maya Angelou got Oprahized. One thing I would add to my comments is that after having gone thrugh the Civil rights movements, Martin Luther King and Malcom X she had little truck for Obama. Yet when she died they were fawning all over her.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)